Boot or shoe



(No Model.)

F. EPHRAIM. BOOT 0R SHOE.

No. 591,646. Patented Oct. 12,1897.

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UNITED STATES I PATENT OFFICE.

FERDINAND EPHRAIM, OF sA FRANoIsoQ'oA LIroRNIA.

BOOT OR SHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters IE'atent N0. 591,646, datedOctober 12, 1897.

Application filedI'ebruary 11, 1897. Serial No. 622,926. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FERDINAND EPHRAIM, a citizen of the United States,residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State ofCalifornia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bootsor Shoes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description thereof.

The present invention relates to a certain new and usefulprotecting-plate for boots and shoes, which is designed for use moreespecially in connection with rubber boots or shoes; and it consists inthe arrangement of parts and details of construction, as will behereinafter fully set forth in the drawings, and described and pointedout in the specification.

The difficultyexperienced in protecting the soles of rubber boots andshoes by nails or by the ordinary plate secured thereon is that theholes or punctures formed by the nails or screws penetrating into therubber causes the boots or shoes to leak, besides the tendency which thenails or plates have, owing to the elasticity of the rubber, to pull outor tear away from the sole.

The object of my invention is to provide protecting-plate so constructedas to permit of being secured to the sole of the boot or shoe withoutthe employment of nails, screws, or other devices which penetrate intothe sole of the boot or shoe.

Referring to the drawings forming a part of the application, Figure 1 isa side view, in

protecting-plates B, which are formed like unto a loop, the uppersurface of which is interposed between the soles A A, while the undersurface is exposed across or transverse the under face of the sole A. Toan ordinary boot or shoe sole I secure four or more protecting-plates,which may vary from half an inch to one-inch in width. These plates aremade of thin metal or other material pos sessing stronger wearingqualities than the sole itself. The size of the plates, it will beunderstood, varies in accordance with the various size soles.

In practice'the plates or bands are slipped onto and adjustedupon theouter sole A before the said sole is secured to the inner or upper soleA, after which the outer sole is secured to the upper or inner sole inthe usual I do not claim or Wish to be understood as claiming such ideabroadly.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure protection in by Letters Patent, is-

In a boot or shoe, the combination withthe inner and outer sole thereof,of a protectingplate consisting of a single piece of metal arrangedbetween the said soles and having its lower body portion run transverseof the under face of the outer sole.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses,this 1st day of February, 1897.

FERDINAND EPHRAIM.

Witnesses:

N. A. ACKER, ELMER WIcKns.

